# DOMDocument::load

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

DOMDocument::load — Load XML from a file

### Beschreibung

public DOMDocument::load(string `$filename`, int `$options` = 0): bool

Loads an XML document from a file.

Warnung

Unix style paths with forward slashes can cause significant performance degradation on Windows systems; be sure to call realpath() in such a case.

### Parameter-Liste

`filename`

  The path to the XML document.

`options`

  Bitwise `OR` of the libxml option constants.

### Rückgabewerte

Gibt bei Erfolg `true` zurück. Bei einem Fehler wird `false` zurückgegeben.

### Fehler/Exceptions

If an empty string is passed as the `filename` or an empty file is named, a warning will be generated. This warning is not generated by libxml and cannot be handled using libxml's error handling functions.

### Changelog

Version | Beschreibung
--- | ---
8.3.0 | This function now has a tentative bool return type.
8.0.0 | Calling this function statically will now throw an Error. Previously, an `E_DEPRECATED` was raised.

### Beispiele

Beispiel #1 Creating a Document

`<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load('examples/book.xml');
echo $doc->saveXML();
?>`

### Siehe auch

- DOMDocument::loadXML() - Load XML from a string
- DOMDocument::save() - Dumps the internal XML tree back into a file
- DOMDocument::saveXML() - Dumps the internal XML tree back into a string

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